Yes, that old tactic. What was he saying last night? He had been all over the company making phone calls and calling in favours, apparently, to get some more of the stock. A cynic might assume they had this stock all along, but release staggered it at best? Of course, I might be wrong, and the presenters do come in hours before their shifts, and start reordering items for their shows. But given the way the channel operates, and the absolute guff it tells people, I am more likely to think that they had a huge existing stock of this product, and didn’t need to order anything in at all. Or if that’s not the case, they have their own buying staff employed to do that kind of role, and don’t use presenters to do it. Dramatic Licence seems to be a required part of the Presenter Modus Operandi Manual on Channel 51…Making it more ‘Theatrical’ for the viewers - rather than with any deliberate intent to ‘deceive’ them. Well, that’s how the Manual probably explains it.
